levyとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from lever (“to raise”).

動詞

levy (三人称単数 現在形 levies, 現在分詞 levying, 過去形および過去分詞形 levied)

1. To impose (a tax または fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

   to levy a tax

   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In August, the company also announced that it would begin to levy fines on other vendors on its platform who over-package their products.

2. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.

3. To draft someone into military service.
4. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.

5. To wage war.
6. To raise, as a siege.
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], OCLC 12997447:

     Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied

7. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
   • 1619, Michael Dalton, The Countrey Justice:

     The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills

名詞

levy (複数形 levies)

1. The act of levying.
   • 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece

     A levy of all the men left under sixty.

2. The tax, property or people so levied.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     The Irish levies.

語源 2

Contraction of elevenpence.

名詞

levy (複数形 levies)

1. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

参考

• levee
• Levi

アナグラム

• Elvy, vley